The Resume

(May 23, 1810-July 19, 1850)
Born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
Worked as a teacher in Temple School, Boston, MA (1836-1837) and at Providence, RI (1837-1839)
Transcendentalist and co-founder of utopian community called Brook Farm
Wrote ‘The Highlands,' ‘Winged Sphinx,' ‘Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844),' ‘Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845),' ‘Papers on Literature and Art (1846),' 'Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852),' ‘At Home and Abroad (1856)' and ‘Life Without and Life Within (1858)'
Editor for ‘The Dial’ (1840-1844) and ‘New York Tribune’ (1844-1850)
Worked in military hospitals during Giuseppe Mazzini’s revolution
Died near Fire Island, New York, United States

Why she might be annoying:

Her husband, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli, was twelve years younger than her.
She gave birth to her son from her future husband a year before they got married.
Even though she co-founded Brook Farm, she never lived there, but was a frequent visitor.
She and Anne Lynch Botta got involved in a scandal with Edgar Allan Poe over his relationships with Frances Sargent Osgood and Elizabeth F. Ellet.

Why she might not be annoying:

She inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character Hester Prynne in the book ‘The Blithedale Romance’.
Due to her intelligence, she was highly educated by her father, who desperately wanted a boy.
She advocated for women’s rights, prison reform, and the abolition of slavery.
She and her husband fled to Florence from Rome because they supported Giuseppe Mazzini’s failed revolution.
She, her husband, and their son Angelo drowned to death during the voyage to New York.

Credit: Big Lenny

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Big Lenny's Profiles [Series 02]
• Civil Rights Activists
• I am a New Englander
• I Died by Drowning
• I Lived on a Commune
• I Mothered Children Out of Wedlock
• I Write Bildungsroman
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1995)
• Philosophers: 19th Century [1800-1900]
• Profiles 27751-28000 (Ranked: 27852)
• Teachers
• The My Hero Project

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 43 Votes: 55.81% Annoying